Preparing Tomorrow's English Language Arts Teachers Today: Principles and Practices for Infusing Technology

Abstract

A teacher in Orlando, Florida has her students read Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and they discuss the book chapter by chapter. Sounds like standard operating procedure...except that her students also post their responses to each chapter on a listserv where other students in a classroom in Russia can add their own thoughts. Both classrooms—in Florida and in Russia—are reading through the novel at the same time and at the same rate so the students can share thoughts and negotiate meanings among one another. ●